It was covered in the MGS thread a while ago, but when you get down to brass tacks and main story beats, Kojima spent most of his Konami career making the same game over and over again. Put to one side all the things taken from other franchises or hollyjew movies.
Having his name attached to MGS has made his career. He puts out utter tripe and it gets lapped up. It really is baffling given even those games, specifically the back half are written like utter shit. High school fan fiction level.
I'll die on the hill of Kojima being a great game designer, with an eye for entertaining gameplay loops and all kinds of neat little details that are there "just because", but oftentimes tie into the overall game structure and have some use.
I think I have said it previously but Kojima's best written games usually manifest when somebody else is doing all the dialogue and he is strictly handling ideas and presentation. Despite localizers being the bane of all existence and deserving of death, MGS 1 would not have been remotely as successful if the English localizer had not functionally rewritten every line to be less retarded, which is also one of the many reasons Twin Snakes has a worse presentation, as the translation is far closer to the original JP text.
Reminder, this is the same guy who reviewed Mortal Kombat XI(the one with a billion microtransactions) and still cried that even tho he personally didn't like it, you should still "give the devs your money because they worked really hard
".That wasn't even Kojima, that was his tard wrangler who was responsible for writing the parts of the game that were actually about espionage and the military. He disappeared after MGS3, and it shows, just look at the disaster that was MGS4 and onwards.
'member when Kojima said that he was forced to make Metal Gear games under the ebil Konami?
When he had full control, no. MGSV had had everything at under control and that game was boring as fuck. Death Stranding is only interesting to play because it's entirely new. MGSV was 30 years in the making that still had much of the formula from the MSX games.
That shit started getting really apparent with MGSV where they have a carbon copy of the MGS1 sneaking suit. And a female sniper. He really is a one note hack. Recycling the same shit for 40 years.
Again, he only cast him for his hollywood card... same as Sutherland Snake in MGSV which everyone hated. Same as del toro with PT, and half the other fucks. He wants into the
club so bad he's desperate for it.
Tbf, the traversal was the unique thing about the first game. The gunplay isn't bad, but there are better games for it. I'd have preferred more interesting missions to traverse specific paths, but you can basically drive around everything.
I am the number one Death Stranding Combat Defender and yeah, you're not wrong.
Have you seen the movie Escape from New York? You may also enjoy the movie Escape from LA.
Oh I've seen them. When Sam said that line, "You're the president of jack shit" in DS1, all I could think of at that moment was Lee Van Cleef saying, "That's not funny Plissken". Solid Snake as a character wouldn't even exist at all without Kyle Reese, John Rambo, and Snake Plissken to get his look and personality from.
Yeah, so "Snake's being duped into everything" is kind of a core part of the concept, right?
I suppose when it comes to Mario games, "dude jumps on things and saves the princess" is fine to repeat because the conceit is so simple, but in a series about deep government shenanigans, child soldiers, human experimentation, espionage, and technology run amok, repeating so many things is more noticeable and perhaps less forgivable. Especially when its fanbase calls it the most intelligent and "profound" gaming series of all time. That's a bit rich, and I'm sure did nothing to stroke Koji's ego over the years.
. This game much like the first does not seem fleshed out in very frustrating ways. So far the only forest fire I have encountered was in a pre scripted mission. If you are taking the time to put this in the game shouldn't it exist in other areas and be something that randomly generates? What if you had flammable cargo that if you fall in a vegetated area will spark a blaze? Or if you get in a shoot out with bandits would blow up and start a fire that you now have to deal with? Far Cry came out like 2 decades ago and had this.